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Bought a 1972 Combat new that year. Had the ports shaped and polished, and got a Blair two into one into two exhaust.
I was 21, damn it was fast. Rode it from Minnesota that summer to San Fransisco and back home. Put a handlebar winshield
on it and hung the sleeping bag on a short sissy bar.
Coming back to Minnesota while going over Independence Pass in the Rockies, the motor overheated and the rear wheel locked while
going down the pass at 75mph, sheer terror, fishtailing with a raft of cars behind me. Tried to pull in the clutch and it straightened up
and damn near threw me off. Got it stopped on the side of the Interstate and sat there shaking for an hour.
It started up and I made it slowly back home.
I had to sell the bike in the fall to raise money for the next year of college. I regret ever selling it, wish I could have somehow kept it.
Very fond memories, especially of its brutal acceleration!
I was 21, damn it was fast. Rode it from Minnesota that summer to San Fransisco and back home. Put a handlebar winshield
on it and hung the sleeping bag on a short sissy bar.
Coming back to Minnesota while going over Independence Pass in the Rockies, the motor overheated and the rear wheel locked while
going down the pass at 75mph, sheer terror, fishtailing with a raft of cars behind me. Tried to pull in the clutch and it straightened up
and damn near threw me off. Got it stopped on the side of the Interstate and sat there shaking for an hour.
It started up and I made it slowly back home.
I had to sell the bike in the fall to raise money for the next year of college. I regret ever selling it, wish I could have somehow kept it.
Very fond memories, especially of its brutal acceleration!